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The latest stage musical from Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong will have its West Coast premiere at the Geffen Playhouse in September, the Los Angeles theater company announced on Thursday. "These Paper Bullets!" -- loosely inspired by Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing" -- will run at the Geffen from Sept. 8 to Oct. 18, after which it will play at the Atlantic Theater Company in New York. The two theater companies are co-producing the staging, which will be directed by Jackson Gay. Armstrong wrote the songs for the musical, which is set in the world of rock and follows four musicians from Liverpool who find themselves in London looking to...

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The latest stage musical from Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong will have its West Coast premiere at the Geffen Playhouse in September, the Los Angeles theater company announced on Thursday.
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